Second edition, reprinting the editio princeps of 1504, including the date. Aldus stated in the 1504 edition that he printed it in a small number of copies, and it is presumably owing to that initial small print-run that the present reprint was issued. The greatest of the Athenian orators, Demosthenes was studied by Cicero, and Quintilian exhorted students of rhetoric not only to study but to commit to memory his speeches. Ahmanson-Murphy 191; Hoffmann I, p.506; Renouard 47:7 (note); Adams D-260.